BONUS TEASER: Redemption or Just Lip Service? // Lisa Rinna's "You Better Believe We're Going to Talk About it"

Is reality TV ever really real, and what do the women who star in it owe us?

This week, Brett joins me for a bonus episode on Lisa Rinna's memoir, You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It, a quick, entertaining listen that we both enjoyed without ever feeling blown away by it. We talk about why this book landed as more filtered than the Lisa Rinna we know from television, and what that says about why she wrote it now.

From there we get into the parts that stuck with us. Lisa's advocacy for older women not stepping aside for the next generation, her honesty about nearly going broke while living a very public Hollywood life, and the story of her father's death by assisted suicide and her mother's survival of a violent kidnapping decades earlier, a story Lisa doesn't fully connect back to her own parenting. We spend real time on the Kathy Hilton drama, the question of whether Bravo protected Kathy at Lisa's expense, and why Lisa stops short of saying outright what she says she witnessed. We also talk about her conflicting statements around disordered eating, her daughter's eating disorder, and what it means to take real accountability in a memoir versus performing it.

We close out asking the bigger question this book keeps raising for us: when a memoir reads like a comeback attempt versus one written by someone who's truly done with Hollywood's opinion of them, and why that difference matters so much for how honest the book ends up being. Please note that this conversation includes discussion of disordered eating, assisted suicide, and a serious violent crime.

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